How to Use spry in a Sentence

spry

adjective

• Larry Paulsen is spry and shrewd as Olivia’s jester, Feste.
  — Lisa Kennedy, The Know, 30 Nov. 2019
• On Tuesday, her pug, Bea, still spry at 7 years old, passed out from the heat.
  — Nicholas Nehamas, miamiherald, 15 Sep. 2017
• The rest of the band makes spry work of otherwise staid idioms.
  — Jon Caramanica, New York Times, 6 June 2019
• Brady, the 13th quarterback to start an NFL game at age 40, didn’t look too spry.
  — Associated Press, Philly.com, 8 Sep. 2017
• Brady, the 13th quarterback to start an NFL game at age 40, didn't look too spry.
  — Barry Wilner, chicagotribune.com, 8 Sep. 2017
• Meanwhile, Lynn, at a spry 88, sounds as sharp and loose as ever.
  — Alex Suskind, EW.com, 20 Mar. 2021
• Still spry and thrilling but showing its age in other ways.
  — Joey Capparella, Car and Driver, 28 Oct. 2020
• One is still spry enough to go 310 mph and the other is still strong enough to carry 6 tons of cargo.
  — Rob Nikolewski, sandiegouniontribune.com, 7 Apr. 2018
• But two days later in Game 6, Davis looked spry and helped the Lakers win a title.
  — Larry Starks, USA TODAY, 4 June 2021
• Dear Heloise: This is my dog Ollie, a happy and spry pup who turns 11 next month!
  — Washington Post, 26 Dec. 2020
• And Todd Gurley looked spry on his 13-yard touchdown run.
  — Albert Breer, SI.com, 30 Sep. 2019
• Long iron hair, yet the spry gait of some extinct animal.
  — Smith Henderson, Popular Mechanics, 20 Nov. 2017
• The victim, Sun Yi Kwon, was a spry 81-year-old who lived alone and went on a daily walk each morning.
  — San Diego Union-Tribune, 27 Sep. 2019
• The staff member went inside and came back with a spry woman smartly dressed in a pantsuit.
  — Harriet Blake, Dallas News, 18 Nov. 2020
• Nike’s flashy Victory 5 XC spike will dig through the mud while staying light and spry.
  — Jonathan Beverly, Outside Online, 23 Sep. 2019
• None of them seemed surprised to see Sid, then a spry 84, wandering through their pregame warmup.
  — Scott Gillespie, Star Tribune, 19 Oct. 2020
• All pet owners want to see their dog healthy and spry into their senior years.
  — Amber Smith, Discover Magazine, 29 Nov. 2022
• The surprisingly spry 14-year-old dog still jumps for treats and dances to elicit a hearty laugh from Williams.
  — Shari Rudavsky, The Indianapolis Star, 3 Mar. 2022
• But when Covid-19 took errands away, the shape-shifting, spry appeal of athleisure seemed to dim.
  — Flora Tsapovsky, Wired, 22 June 2020
• There’s plenty of guys here who are young and spry and running around, and something might happen.
  — Joseph Person, charlotteobserver, 12 June 2018
• Eleven years later, Trump was able to put him on the Supreme Court as a relatively spry 49-year-old.
  — Mark Joseph Stern, Slate Magazine, 9 May 2017
• McCown, looking very spry for a 38-year-old QB, went in untouched around the left side on a scramble for a 7-0 Jets lead.
  — USA TODAY, 2 Nov. 2017
• A few month ago, my spry 89-year-old grandfather (who still goes to the gym three times a week) visited the U.S. from Israel.
  — Stav Ziv, Newsweek, 18 Oct. 2017
• In the early months of the pandemic, Ilse Treister, a spry 96-year-old, was confined to her apartment.
  — Eliza Fawcett, courant.com, 9 May 2021
• At the spry age of 20, Kenin's an up-and-comer having reached the final in Cincinnati before falling to Keys.
  — Scott Gleeson, USA TODAY, 22 Aug. 2019
• Some folks in their 90s are spry and highly active, while folks who are decades younger appear to be much older.
  — Bryant Stamford, The Courier-Journal, 18 Aug. 2022
• Nancy Guigle, a longtime volunteer at the pantry, is still spry enough at age 78 to scale a stepladder to grab canned goods.
  — Greg Trotter, chicagotribune.com, 10 May 2018
• Teammate Nasir Adderley, the free safety, is 47th and looked spry Sunday.
  — Tom Krasovic, San Diego Union-Tribune, 19 Dec. 2022
• In a year that's seen the loss of so many beloved celebrities, Betty White is still looking spry and going strong (thank goodness!).
  — Diana Bruk, Country Living, 17 Jan. 2017
• Gone is the spry young guy who jokes about his continued sobriety.
  — Brigid Kennedy, The Week, 1 May 2023

Last Updated: 4 Nov 2024